Apparel-corset.



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APPLIGATION FILED JUI Y 16, 1908.

919,890, Patented Apr. 27, 1909.

UN TEns-TA -ns PATENT mm 3 SAMUEL Kors, or ew Your, N. Y., ASSIGNOR T0 Kors BROS;, OF NEW YORK, use, A FIRM.

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I Specification of Letters Patenti- Patented 27, 1909.

Application filed July 16, 1903. Seri a1No 443fi58.

; To all whom. it may concern:

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Be it known that I, SAMUEL Kors, a citizen of the United States, residing at the borough of Manhattan, city,.county, and Stateof New York, have invented an Improvement in Apparel-Corsets, of which the following is a My invention relates to, improvements upon the devices shown and described in Letters Patent granted to DanielKops, April 23,

1907, #851,525, and May 12,-19cs,ass7,656.

In-the devices of these patents the tension straps crossing at the back have. prolonged ends passing over the outer surfaces of the corset to connect with'iastemng devices on The object of my invention is to effect the same backsup orting functionas is effectedby the crossingstraps of said patents without anchoring the tension straps-at the front.

In thecarrying out of my invention", the

free ends/of these crossingstraps are con-. nected tfidoubled aces-and these laces pass from the under sireof the corset halves out through eyelets an the fabric body beyond the said free ends. These doubled laces then diverge and extend to-the usual back lacing eyelets and through thesame, extending back and forth and approaching one another hands an tied together as a two-partlace.

IBy mea s of these laces tension can be applied to draw upon the straps and simultane other words, with t eir free 'ends:..'cr 0ssing until thzyzmeet and can be grasped by the- I .fthe'drawing, Figure 1,is an elevation of the/ rider surface at the back-of the corset shq wing parts of the said halves and the fea'--' tune of my improvement. Figf 2 is a similar view looking at the outer'side' of the corset.

a I) represent the halvesofthecorset, c d" the lacingedges having-eyelets as usual,-:

of usual form below the waist. I

thereef'and overlap ing oneanothen jor in over the gap in the corsets between t 'e lacin edges at the back. These straps are secure to the'halves of the coir-let by lines of sewing ously raw to ether the lacing edges of the" 00 e to the esired extent, all of which is. here' after more fully explained.

straps.

,and through t e eyelets 7 and then 2 3 at the seam edges which are appreciably distant from the lacing edges of the corset;

the strap 9 being secured at the lines of sewing 2 and having an opening dividing the sewed line; the strap hbeingsecured' by the undivided line of sewing 3. The stra s g h are. of substantially the same len th an they ing gap at the back of the corset that their free ends do. not reach the lines of sewed.

union of each other to the halves of the corset. Their free'ends are connected at about the center of a doubled lace of usual length.

Preferably the free ends are passed around the lace at about its center and sewed down to place inclosing the lace and connecting thetant from the lacing edges than the sewed lines v2 3 I place pairs of eyelets 4 5 of about 7 or preferably -more than the same distance apart than the width of the free .ends of the The lace 'i of the strap 9 ,passes through theneyelets 4 while the laceik from the free end ofthe stra it passes through the eyelets 5 for a straight ine of draft inpulling upon the said straps. The laces i then pass are soplaced with reference to t 1e usual lac- In the halves of t o corset and further 'dis from the eyelets 4 to and through the eyelets 6 and thence back and forth through the lac- 7c after passin through theeyel ets 5 ass to blink and forth through thealternate eyelets a proaching one another, their free "ends merging from the last eyelets. where they may be grasped and'pulled to ether'by the hand.

; In the operation of t ode vice of my invention and-with the free ends of the laces in position to be grasped by the hands and pulled up'on,-it 1s quite apparentthat there lacing edges of the corset will be pulled toward one another and the free ends of the straps will also be pulled upon, applying a i y and h represent the cross n straps 10-" i cated at the waist line atthe. ack ofthe corset and securedv to theg under surface maximum tension first to the straps and then to the backedges of the corset until. the

'ing eyelets toward one another. The laces will be a. simultaneous action, namely, the

wearer has the desired amount of tension and support, after which the laces are tied togather in the usual manner of'tying corset aces. Y

From the foregoing description and illu's tration, it will be apparent that once these laces are released the tension will separatei with the halves of the corset and the usual the straps and open the back of the corset so that the corset may be removed I claim as my invention;

1. In an a parel corset, the combination with the hal vesof a corset and tension straps securedto' the under surface at the back and extending toward one another and overlapping, of laces connected to the free ends of said straps-passing through eyelets in the halves of the corset and through the lacing eyelets of the back for drawing together the straps and the back of the corset and simultaneously applying tension.

2. In an apparel corset, thecmnbination with the halves of the corset and the lacing edges thereof, of straps secured to the under surface of the corset at the back and at about the waist line and appreciably distant from the lacing edges and extending toward one another and lapping over the acing ga in the back of the corset, eyelets in the ha ves of the corset beyond the places of connection of said straps to the fabric body of the corset,

laces secured to the free ends of the straps passin through said eyelets and back and forth t ough the usual lacing eyelets of the corset, whereby when thelaces are pulled upon, the straps and halves of the corset are drawn together and tension simultaneously applied.

3'. In an apparel corset, the combination with the halves of the corset and the lacing edges thereof, of straps secured to the under surface of the corset at the back and at about the waist line and appreciably distant from the lacingedges and extendin toward one another and lapping over the Iacing gap in the back of the corset, oneof said straps having an opening or being cut away at its sewed line of union to the fabric of the corset, eyelets secured in the halves of the corset in line with the said straps at line of union of the straps, and laces-secured to' the freeends of the straps passing through these eyelets and to and through the usual together and applying tension.

4. In an apparel corset and in combinnfinn laces farther distant from the lacing edges t an the sewed lines of union and which are preferably 1 spaced apart a greater distance than the width of the narrow ends of said straps, laces connected substantially at their doubled center to the narrower free ends of said straps, one of said laces being passed through the opening in the sewed ine of union of the opposite strap and both of said laces assing through the pairs of eyelets 4 5 i and iverging and passing through the eyelets of the lacing back and then back and forth through alternate eyelets of said lacing eyelets, approaching one another and finally 5 emerging through eyelets at about the center line of said strapswhere said laces may be 1 grasped by hand to pull the straps and the I back of the corset toward each other and apply the desired tension. 5. In-an apparel corset and in combinal tion with the halves of a corset and tension 1 straps secured to the under surface at the l backand extending toward one another and overlapping, of laces connected to the free ends of said straps and passing through eyelets in the halves of the corset for drawing together the straps and applying tension.

6. In an apparel corset, the combination with the halves of the corset and the lacing edges thereof, of straps secured to the under surface of the corset at the back and at about the waist line and appreciably distant from the lacing edges and extendim toward one another and overlapping over the lacin ap in the back of the corset, eyelets in the h al ves drawn toggther and tension applied.

1 Signed y me this 3rd da 0 Jul 1908.

v .S EL OPS.

Witnesses:

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of the corset beyond the places of connection' when the laces are pulled upon, the straps are 

